Pinball Slideshow

The Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame (www.pinballmuseum.org) was the creation of Tim Arnold, who opened Pinball Pete’s in Lansing, Michigan in 1976. Always a pinball fanatic, when Arnold moved to Las Vegas in 1990 he took his roughly 1,000 arcade and video games with him. Originally housed in a tennis court, the games were featured in a series of “Pinball Fun Nights” hosted by the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors’ Club. In 2006, Arnold’s collections was transformed into the Pinball Hall of Fame, a not-for-profit charity. Holding roughly 200 pinball machines and a few standup arcade games, the “Hall of Fame” is essentially Arnold’s personal collection. I asked Arnold what he thought of pinball simulations, such as PinMAME and Pro Pinball: “They’re like kissing your sister,” he said. “All the game consoles, the personal computer– they killed the arcade. But there’s nothing like it.”